Intuitive Eating Guide for Dietitians

Empower Your Clients with the 10 Intuitive Eating Principles!
Are you looking for intuitive eating handouts for clients that help clarify how to break free from diet culture and heal their relationship with food? If you’re looking for handouts that are evidence-based, fun and interactive, and compassionate, then these handouts are for you—without spending hours creating materials from scratch. This Intuitive Eating Guide for Dietitians is a 48-page, ready-to-use resource that simplifies the 10 principles of intuitive eating into actionable weekly challenges and creative worksheets.

Perfect for individual or group counseling, this guide blends evidence-based strategies with practical, interactive activities rooted in the foundational work by Evelyn Tribole.

This comprehensive Intuitive Eating Guide for Dietitians includes:

• Intro to Intuitive Eating: Overview + engaging explanation for clients
• Intuitive Eating Contract: Empowerment starts with intention! This contract helps clients understand how intuitive eating takes the 3 P’s of paying attention, patience, and practice.
• 10 Principles in Depth:

1 – Reject the Diet Mentality
2 – Honor Your Hunger
3 – Make Peace with Food
4 – Challenge the Food Police
5 – Feel Your Fullness
6 – Discover the Satisfaction Factor
7 – Honor your Feelings without using Food
8 – Respect Your Body
9 – Exercise: Feel the Difference
10 – Honor Your Health: Gentle Nutrition

• Each principle includes:
  • A simplified breakdown of each principle referencing Intuitive eating: A revolutionary anti-diet approach
    (Tribole, E., & Resch, E. (2020). Intuitive eating: A revolutionary anti-diet approach (4th ed.). St. Martin’s Essentials.)
  • Reflection prompts guiding clients to interpret their relationship with food and body
  • A weekly challenge to implement the principle in which clients overcome emotional eating tendencies
• Interactive Handouts:
  • Hunger-Fullness Scale – helps clients understand how to tune in to true hunger and fullness cues re-creating trust within their eating habits and body. This scale re-iterates the importance of eating frequency and composition of meals/snacks.
  • Mood & Food Connection Tracker – understand which foods “trigger” or cause an emotional response within clients. By understanding and incorporating more of this food item, the concept of food habituation can occur. The red foods sense a high emotional response; the yellow foods cause caution or a pause; the green foods are effortless. The goal is to incorporate all foods to become a green food category over time.
  • Stress-Less Coping Activity – incorporating a stress-reducing activity when emotional eating urges occur helps redirect the stress and overall response. This assists clients in eating less of the craved food item.
  • Gratitude Reflections – help clients reflect on deep rooted eating behaviors- this awareness assists in identifying change.

Key Benefits for Dietitians:

• 🕒 Saves You Time: No more late nights creating handouts
• 🎯 Client-Ready: Designed to be used immediately in sessions
• 🧠 Encourages Mindful Eating: Fun activities that promote behavior change
• 💬 Versatile Use: Ideal for 1:1 counseling or group programs
• 🙌 Aligned with Intuitive Eating Workbook: Consistent with the original principles by Tribole

Created By a Dietitian, for Dietitians

Crafted with intention and creativity, this resource was built to support your work in helping others ditch diet culture, build body trust, and embrace food freedom. Whether you’re guiding a client through emotional eating patterns or introducing mindfulness in group coaching, this guide is your go-to companion.

Perfect For:

• Private practice dietitians
• Group facilitators
• Eating disorder recovery specialists
• Health coaches using a non-diet approach

File Details:

📄 48 Pages | 📥 Digital PDF | 🖨️ Print-Ready

After working with hundreds of women desiring a healthy relationship with food, I created these handouts as part of my virtual nutrition private practice. The principles have been successfully used within individual client sessions and have contributed to the food freedom that my clients achieve.

Terms and conditions  

This document is to be used as a tool in nutrition counseling or nutrition groups.   It is not intended to replace 1:1 care of the treatment of an eating disorder, disordered eating, other types of nutrition counseling. The author is not responsible for errors, omissions, or individual usage.  All materials are protected under copyright and are only intended for use by the sole individual or entity who purchased the template.

License: You may not share, sell, or distribute these files to others.  Printed files are permitted for use with clients in individual or group sessions only.

Social Media: Should you decide to use the content from these handouts to create social images, please give credit to the creator and tag me (@performance_rd) as the source.

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